Archive for 2010

Nat Segaloff, the Los Angeles-based archivist for the Estate of Dom DeLuise, reports on the disposition of the great comedian’s collections, including the forthcoming donation of TV material to the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Renowned experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison has an unusual relation to the world of moving-image archives: He uses the qualities of deteriorating nitrate film stock for various artistic, expressive ends. He speaks here with Moving Image Archive News.

Renowned experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison has an unusual relation to the world of moving-image archives: He uses decaying film stock as his raw material. He uses the qualities of deteriorating nitrate film stock for various artistic, expressive ends. He speaks here with MIAN.

Read about new books about moving image forms, and their archiving, on our New Books pages. In Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors (Hansen Publishing Group), John DiLeo presents his study of 11 actors, including Marlon Brando, Madeleine Sherwood, and Anna Magnani (see cover photo, left, where she appears with Williams on the

In a new book, researchers of contemporary African cinema describe the influence of French-language cinema of the 1960s, and what came after. Among many compelling perspectives on the film of the continent are those dealing with the extraordinary rise of “Nollywood” – cheaply made and highly popular films from Nigeria. Viewing African Cinema in the

When new books appear that relate to moving images in any format, Moving Image Archive News lists and describes them in the Books section. (If you know of any we’ve missed, please let us know through info@movingimagearchivenews.org.) We also ask authors to share their experiences of locating source material for their books – moving images

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Archive Content Inventory Project (CIP) has advertised a job posting for archivists and librarians to help inventory archival public media assets nationwide. It is hiring “Saving What America Treasures” teams to visit archives, libraries, and public media broadcasting stations to inventory their collections. Information about applying is online. Deadline

From the Better Late Than Never department: The CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fascinating segment in October 2010 about historic 1906 film of San Francisco’s main thoroughfare, Market Street, just days before the street and much of city were devastated by the great earthquake of 1906 and subsequent fire. The segment was about